Alun Armstrong
Birthday: 1946-07-17
Place of Birth: Annfield Plain, County Durham, England, UK
Biography: Alun Armstrong is a prolific English character actor. Armstrong grew up in County Durham in North East England. He first became interested in acting through Shakespeare productions at his grammar school. Since his career began in the early 1970s, he has played, in his words, "the full spectrum of characters from the grotesque to musicals... I always play very colourful characters, often a bit crazy, despotic, psychotic." His numerous credits include six different Dickens adaptations and seven series as eccentric ex-detective Brian Lane in New Tricks. Armstrong is also an accomplished stage actor who spent nine years with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He originated the role of Thénardier in the London production of Les Misérables and he won an Olivier Award for playing the title role in Sweeney Todd.
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Paradise Found
Paradise Found is a biography about the painter Paul Gauguin. Focusing on his personal conflict betw...
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The Saint
Simon Templar (The Saint), is a thief for hire, whose latest job to steal the secret process for col...
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Krull
A prince and a fellowship of companions set out to rescue his bride from a fortress of alien invader...
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The Mummy Returns
Rick and Evelyn O’Connell, along with their 8-year-old son Alex, discover the key to the legendary S...
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Eragon
In his homeland of Alagaesia, a farm boy happens upon a dragon's egg -- a discovery that leads him o...
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Sleepy Hollow
Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, w...
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An Awfully Big Adventure
Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre t...
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The Nicky Nack
A man walking home from his local pub one night is tormented by a terrifying sound: The Nicky Nack....
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Van Helsing: The London Assignment
It tells of the events before the film, in which monster hunter Gabriel Van Helsing travels to Londo...
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Van Helsing
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It's All About Love
The story of two lovers and their attempts to save their relationship in a near-future world on the ...
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Split Second
In a flooded future London, Detective Harley Stone hunts a serial killer who murdered his partner an...
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Patriot Games
When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and...
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MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday
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Black Beauty
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Les Misérables: 10th Anniversary Concert at the Royal Albert Hall
The top stars from the original London and Broadway productions join together with a 150-voice choru...
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Sticky Wickets
It's a big night at the New Dragon Inn when a coach of distinguished Germans arrives. But disaster l...
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G:MT Greenwich Mean Time
Six London school-leavers attempt to make it in the world, balancing the challenge of trying to make...
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The Duellists
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Breaking the Code
A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital co...
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Carrie's War
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Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
The story of the rise of morals crusader Mary Whitehouse in the UK in the 1960's....
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Witness Against Hitler
The true story of a Prussian aristocrat working for German military intelligence during World War II...
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Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
Cocky cockney snooker player Billy Kid accepts the challenge of a grudge match from Maxwell Randall ...
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Our Day Out
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When I'm Sixty-Four
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The Girls Who Came to Stay
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London Kills Me
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White Hunter, Black Heart
Renowned filmmaker John Wilson travels to Africa to direct a new movie, but constantly leaves to hun...
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Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert
This concert, recorded to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the landmark musical Les Miserables, gat...
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Fear of God
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Looking After Number One
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The 14
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The Childeater
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With or Without You
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Blue Ice
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This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
This is a dramatisation of the real-life investigation into the notorious Yorkshire Ripper murders o...
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Braveheart
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Walla...
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A Night on the Tyne
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All Day on the Sands
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The Likely Lads
With the destruction of their previous neighbourhood has inevitably come the destruction of the lads...
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The Dinner Party
Young couple Jackie and Leo move from North London to a suburban home in the green belt paradise of ...
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The Widowmaker
The Widowmaker is a 1990 made for television film starring Annabelle Apsion, Alun Armstrong, David M...
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Risking It
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Sorry About Last Night
A romantic comedy written by and starring Alexei Sayle. A couple on a first date in London are deter...
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The Choral
As World War I rages on, Dr. Henry Guthrie takes over a British choral society that's lost most of i...
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Golden Years
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Doggin' Around
The past catches up with an ageing American jazz pianist when he returns to the clubs of Lancashire ...
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Get Carter
Jack Carter is a small-time hood working in London. When word reaches him of his brother's death, he...
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A Bridge Too Far
The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to ...
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Harrison's Flowers
1991. Harrison Lloyd, a renowned photojournalist covering the war in Yugoslavia, is reported missing...
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That Summer of White Roses
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Asunder
Esther Johnson’s film uses local archive footage to convey the story of Sunderland's involvement in ...
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Inquisition
Set in the Spain of 1680, a time of torture and interrogation by the Grand Inquisitor. A young man a...
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Brazen Hussies
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Funny Cow
A comedian uses her troubled past as material for her stand-up routine, trying to rise up through th...
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Oliver Twist
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Strictly Sinatra
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Millions
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Possum
A disgraced children's puppeteer returns to his childhood home and is forced to confront his wicked ...
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7 Up 2000
A new generation of British children feature in a follow-up to the original 7 Up series...
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Proof of Life
When American engineer Peter Bowman is kidnapped while working in South America, his wife Alice enli...
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Only Make Believe
Playwright Christopher Hudson finds his medical problem hinders his writing. He employs secretary Sa...
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Mr Moon's Last Case
Play based on Brian Patten's book. Local children and retired detective Moon band together to protec...
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Out of Innocence
After a police investigation, a young mother, confused and scared, confesses to a crime she did not ...
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Aristocrats
18th-century England and Ireland viewed through the eyes of four beautiful high-born sisters - Carol...
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The House
Set in 1884, and based on the assumption that Britain is one of the Baltic states between Russia and...
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Measure for Measure
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The French Lieutenant's Woman
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Shooting the Chandelier
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Easy Go
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The Sex Victims
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Onegin
A virtuous and passionate girl falls in love with a cynical but a dashing aristocrat....
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Nineteen96
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The Eyes Have It
A group of terrorists posing as plumbers set up base at a school for the blind. The students remain ...
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The Caucasian Chalk Circle
The hardships faced by a woman trying to survive a bloody civil war while caring for the abandoned c...
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American Friends
Francis Ashby, a senior Oxford don on holiday alone in the Alps, meets holidaying American Caroline ...
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Freedom of the Dig
After 15 years in HM Prisons, Emerson just wants to keep his nose clean and get out. Working on the ...
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Liza
Lavretsky returns to Russia from Europe and joins the group of admirers of his beautiful young cousi...
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Breaking The Codes
Using rare archive footage and exclusive interviews, this series takes you to the heart of a war tha...
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Number 27
Miss Barwick is 90 years old. She has lived peacefully in the same house all her life - until a youn...
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The Tempest
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales, Season 1, Episode 2. Exiled Prospero lives on a desolate island wi...
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My Little Eye
The discovery of the world by a young boy singing "I spy with my little eye something beginning with...
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